Memento
Some memories are best forgotten.
A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer using tattoos and polaroids, in a story told backwards so we share his blindness.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Signature
- Mystery · Suspense · Darkness
- Worldwide
- $40M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Memento actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
Spoiler-free. Read the analysis below for the full argument.
A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer using tattoos and polaroids, in a story told backwards so we share his blindness.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Memento appears in 5 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies Ranked #5
Ranked #5 because form and subject are the same thing here; almost nothing else manages that.
A revenge story told backwards so you share the amnesia.
- Mystery Movies Ranked #5
Ranked #5 because rated 8.9 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest mystery titles in the catalogue.
A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer using tattoos and polaroids, in a story told backwards so we share his blindness.
- Best Psychological Thrillers Ranked #6
Ranked #6 because it makes the audience complicit in a false certainty.
Revenge you can't remember planning.
- Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked Ranked #6
Ranked #6 because still the boldest formal gamble of his career.
The film that announced the method.
- Thriller Movies Ranked #11
Ranked #11 because rated 8.9 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest thriller titles in the catalogue.
A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer using tattoos and polaroids, in a story told backwards so we share his blindness.
The record
Awards
2 wins · 2 nominations
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 2 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
1 win
- WinnerNational Board of Review: Top Ten Films
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
1 win
- WinnerThe Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Memento returned 4.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $9M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $40M
- Release date
- Oct 11, 2000
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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